Roll
Nana, rolling a black tourmaline stone
over her palm with her thumb — her
skin warm and smelling of curled
orange peel — once said,
I’m afraid
this is the
way it goes.
Your body betrays,
and will continue
to betray you.
Hollay Ghadery is a writer living in small-town Ontario. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in various literary journals, including The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review and Room. She’s had personal essays published with CBC Parents and Lady Latitudes. Fuse, her memoir of biracial identity and mental health, came out on Guernica Editions’ MiroLand imprint in 2021; her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, is due out in spring 2022 with Radiant Press.